Dochtersions: Hello everybody! Under the name "dochtersions" I started, at the suggestion of my dear husband, in sharing my photos, fractals, and also some paintings, and other 2D art here at Renderosity. That was in January of 2010. I still use my two owls as avatar, which is a reduced image of one of my oil paintings.
The name "dochtersions" came into my head as only one, when I was looking for a name for my blog that I started in 2007.
This name is not that strange, as I know that God is my real father and mother at the same time, and I know that God loves me more and deeper than a man can aware of (or at least I think this way)
I live in the South of The Netherlands together with my retired husband. I've had various occupations. In my last job, I was working as an assistant to a paediatrician and a rehabilitation specialist. When I had children, I graduated "health awareness", and gave lectures on various topics, plus vegetarian cooking classes to teenagers.
My husband and I have together two daughters and four grandchildren. Which all live abroad, to be precise in Lacey (WA-USA) and Davos in Switzerland.
I've always been busy with all kinds of creativity. As a child I drew a lot, later pottery, needle art, tapestries, weaving, batik art, macramé, etc. Painting with oil was my last great hobby.
Around about the year 2000 I started having unexplained physical symptoms as well as insomnia, which was later diagnosed as having PTSD. It turned out that I had repressed a traumatized youth. However, the physical symptoms made that I no longer could be busy with my passions, the real painting, and other activities (f.e. reading books, gardening, travelling), which I was doing without a limit.
What I can stay doing well in limited form, is playing music on my mandolin and my guitar, and also to enjoy/listen my favourite music, which is including the cantatas of J.S. Bach and his sons , f.e. also music from G.F. Handel, G.Ph. Telemann, a.s.o. This is also the kind of music that my husband (on its church organ) and I (on my mandolin) play together.
After being diagnosed with PTSD a lot changed and I was forced to look for alternatives in which I could express myself. That is, that for years I started writing, and poetry, which go quite intense and as a sort of automatic. Unfortunately, my knowledge of the English language is not sufficient enough, so I write in my mother tongue, with sometimes a few exceptions. The thoughts come to my mind right at unexpected moments, and it’s wonderful, to surrendering to your train of thoughts.
In the encounter more and more of impossibilities, in connection with, f.e continuous pains, I learned to shift my gaze. Searching for distractions and alternatives, I learned to focus my happy mind on all the wonderful and admirable little things in the world around me.
My husband since 1968 Karel (kareldg on RR) bought a small pocket camera for me, and taught me to work with Fractal Explorer. Through my little Sony camera I learned to look differently, to see deeper; to see the details, the structure, how refined, and just so unique the small ones are in God's creation.
What is one of my daily tasks is trying to support people who suffer from PTSD, but they suffer more in an emotional way, and I can understand them and listen to their story (digital) they trust me.
Renderosity: What projects are you currently working on?
Dochtersions: Of course I would love to take more concrete technical knowledge to me (to acquire), and follow tutorials, how to work with Ultra Fractal, Mandelbulb, etc.. The capabilities of PSP investigate and experiment with it.
The manual of my current camera (Canon PowerShot SX50HS, and as pocket camera Panasonic DMC-TZ35, since 2020 I use a Canon PowerShot SX70HS). I would like to sift through, and experiment with it. But exactly that kind of things, such as reading comprehension, concentration, makes this especially, by the constant dominating intense facial pain, really impossible.
All in all, I continue to look for improvement, while in the meantime trying to be light-hearted, happy and hopeful, to be open to everything that's coming my way. I enjoy art, stay in the nature, the outer man/woman in me, the love that I've been given, to realize this, and to be thankful for. Wherever I am happy with is that I am able to meet so many lovely people through RR. Unfortunately, only digital, but I'm also grateful.
Comments (24)
Faemike55
Very beautiful work Jacomina
flavia49
marvellous
magnus073
You did an outstanding job on this very lovely presentation, Mies.
jocko500
very good words and image too
Bampster
Fantastic image, the flexibility of Apo is great---very well done!!!!!
claude19
still optimistic my great friend artist! A beautiful composition you the secret ... take care of yourself and your companions! How lucky we are to still be couple much disturbed at this time ... a thousand butterflies colors, multicolored, for a little hello from Nantes to you both !!!
peedy
Beautiful, Mies. Corrie
giulband
Very elegant and well done fractal image !!!!
durleybeachbum
A lovely vision of optimism, Mies.
jayfar
Excellent work as always Jacomina.
farmerC
Fantastie's werk met mooie vormen.
mininessie
big hugs for you dear Mies!!
Juliette.Gribnau
hier zit heel mooie beweging in; prachtig
jmb007
jolie jacomina
auntietk
this is just gorgeous. it looks perfect from every angle! your composition is wonderful.
Glendaw
Just like looking up, way up and finding a multitude of butterflies soaring overhead. Fantastic optimism as seen in your description of this wonderful image. Amazing how APO's work out on their own ! P.S. No need to hurry Mies, your health always comes first. Always a pleasure to see you any time you are available.
helanker
Well, last time I looked upward, I found snowflakes coming down and it was so beautiful, just like your wonderful fracal here. I see snowflakes in your image, Jacomina :) And please dont apologize. It is good you are careful with your health. May it be a whole lot better in the New Year, dear friend. :-D
X-PaX
Very nice work Jacomina.
gumbykat
Beautiful! I see butterflies. And swooping birds! And leaves in the wind! Very uplifting!
toyyaris
wonderful work my friend Happy New Year 2015
soffy
Happy New Year to you and yours:) so wonderful work****
ia-du-lin
very nice fractal image
anahata.c
ditto Helle, your health is very important, and with all you have to go through, it's fully understandable that you take breaks from RR. (I disappear for weeks! You do a lot better than I do, believe me...) Another of your beautiful swirling fractal universes, undulating with different "planes" of existence in them. This seems to have a sky rushing through it---like clouds of flowers moving through the thickets of your fractal. And beautiful open planes of red on the edges, and lots of cosmos-black (with stars, I think). The 'flying shapes' look almost like mythic flying birds or butterflies. It's a beautiful little universe, with so much unfolding inside it. Beautiful work, Mies. Your fractals are some of the fullest, most intimate and beautiful I've ever seen. And thank you for your comment on my selfies---lol, if I'm a womaniser, then I'm the worst womaniser in history! I mean, if womanisers are supposed to get "stares on the sidewalk," I haven't gotten one of those in 200 years. (I get stares, but not "hey, check THAT guy out!" More like, "did he just step out of the 18th Century?") (Dogs stare at me. I think they think I'm a dog.) But thank you for your very kind comment. Selfies aren't hard, just go in front of a mirror, and shoot. But your fractals are selfies of the inner kind---they're selfies of your soul, which is huge and radiating with love. Beautiful work as always. I'm just here for a quick visit to a few galleries tonight, but I'll be back for more soon...
danapommet
A pretty cloud of flowing flowers! Een mooie wolk van stromende bloemen!